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...they have constructed a mechanism so vast, and a financial reservoir of proportions so oceanic that the tender plant is in more danger of being drowned than not watered. However, let us not be pessimistic. Some, if not all business will sprout sturdily in spite of this golden cloud-burst, and there seems small doubt that among the lost arts revived will be those of taking down shutters, giving short change, punching time-clocks, dressing windows, reading ticker-tape and compiling sucker-lists...
...Marquis of Queensbury and Lord de Clifford as judges, before a crowd that had torn down the side doors of the Royal Aquarium to get a look at him, Sandow met Samson. Samson began by bending an iron bar over arms, calf and neck. Sandow copied him. Next Samson burst a wire cable wound around his chest. Sandow burst its fellow. Samson snapped a chain on the muscles of his arm. The chain was too small for Sandow. He called for his big dumbbell. The greatest moment of his life had come...
...dumb-bell weighed 280 pounds. He hoisted it high over head with one hand, lay down on the stage with it, cuddled and caressed it and rose again while the Aquarium rocked with cheers. He fastened chains around his arms, lifted that beloved titanic dumb-bell and burst every chain before putting it down. Samson refused to proceed any further...
These Charming People. Michael Arlen's second play burst upon Broadway with a vast fanfare of enthusiasm. It was reported a great success in tryout; it employed a brilliant cast. Accordingly when it turned out to be a tawdry, dull and not particularly intelligent adventure, bitterness rose in the spectators' breasts...
...first boom was Newton D. Baker. He appeared on the platform of Cleveland's Public Hall, scene of the Republican Convention two Junes ago. He made a little speech and then the Cleveland Symphony orchestra burst into music in one of the perennial civic efforts to make good music popular. This particular effort was marked by two unusual proceedings: 1) blocks of tickets were issued to each of Cleveland's numerous foreign elements (Cleveland's population is about 80% foreign born) ; 2) the program consisted of music by composers of ten different nationalities...